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SHAKE-UP IN DEPARTMENTS
ASSURED BY G. O. P. WAR
ON SURPLUS WORKERS.
~ The most intensive shake-up of gov=
ernment bureaus in history is forecast
by republican congressional leaders,
according to reports from Washing
ton. Early in the sixty-seventh con
gress, if not in the present short ses
sion, -the effort will be made to rid
the government of bureaus whose
work is duplicated in other depart
ments. A resolution is benig prepared
to create a special committee that is
to uncover the branches that can be
spared. Whole bureaus may be cut off.
Others may be merged where they are
found to be duplicating their activities.
The changes will result, according
to Chairman S. D. Fess, of the re
publican congressional campaign com
mittee, in the elimination of a lot of
“dead wood” and the reduction of the
force of employes at Washington. Be
fore the war there were reported fewer
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than 37,000 .employes in the capital.
At the present time, two years after
the end of the war, there are nearly
three times that number.
To Kill Bureaucracy.
The republicans, according to Fess,
have marked for aaughter the system
lof ‘bureaucrac{"/’ that they assert has
grown up in Washington.
’ “Congress unacquainted with the
'details of bureau work,” Congressman
Fess declared, “and disinclined to risk
injuring service, becomes a victim of
grasping bureaus,. whose concern is
results as shown in increased demands
upon the treasury department. This
accounts for the continual expansion
of the various departments, most of
which have grown by leaps and
bounds in the last score of years.”
TWO TOTS FALL THREE
STORIES WITHOUT SCRATCH
CHICAGO.—Bertha Mayer, aged
2, and her baby sister, Elaine, aged
1 month, fell three stories Friday and
escaped without a seratch. The chil
dren were being held from a window
in a burping rooming house by their
father. He was overcome by smoke
and dropped them into the arms of
the crowd below.
TREASURES AT BOTTOM OF THE SEA -
MAY BE RAISED BY NEW INVENTION
Davy Jones’ Locker Will Be Plunder
ed of Its Riches if New York
Man’s Plan Is Successful.
This year the world will see the
salvaging of ocean wrecks on a large
scale, if the hopes of Simon Lake,
submarine inventor of New York city,
are realized. He expects the lifting of
sunken treasure to develop into a
great industry, and Dbelieves that,
through his secret invention, he will
be able to recover treasures of ancient
civilization lost in the Mediterranean
and the China sea.
His first work will be to raise 10,-
000,000 tons of coal lying at the bot
tom of Long Island sound. Experi
ments have shown that the Lake
equipment will revolutionize work un
der water. A submarine is used and
the workers direct their mechanical
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MASTER MIND” OF
SITS IN CHICAGO AND USES
LONG DISTANCE PHONE TO
DIRECT OPERATIONS.
CHICAGO, Ill.—“ Somewhere in
Chicago” sits the man who is the
brains of the great Chicago whisky
ring.
He lives in a comfortable apart
ment, whick he uses also as an office.
He is in a'most daily communication
by long distance telephone with
Washington, Cineinnati and other
cities.
This “master mind” has four chief
lieutenants. Two live in Chicago. Two
live in Washington.
Made $14,000,000.
These five men—the real “higher
ups” in a systematic booze traffic that
covers half of the country—have
cleaned up $14,000,000 in profits since
national prohibition went into effect.
Such is the story whispered in Chi
cago. It is a story that contains no
names and no addresses. It may be of
the flimsiest foundation—but there are
several people in Chicago who insist
it is true. Reports concerning this
“fourteen million dollar clique” are
significantly” persistent.
. There has been emphasis on the
story the past week because of the ac
‘tivity of the federal grand jury prob
ing the booze scandal and the coinci
‘dent resignation of Maj. A. V. Dal
rymple, most famous commissioner in
the country.
Chief Is Worried.
It is said the mysterious chief of
the “fourteen million dollar clique” is
worried about Dalrymple’s confiden
tial report, though he claims to have
such tremendous influence that he can
not be “touched.”
Major Dalrymple refuses to discuss
his report. Commissioner Williams in
Woashington admitted its existence, but
went no further than a hint that it in
cluded “names of politicians and offi
cials who attempted to block enforce
ment of the prohibition law.”
It is significant that two leading
enforcement officials .have resigned in
Chicago, said to be the distributing
center of the nation’s illicit booze in
castry. Captain Hubert Howard, state
commissioner, resigned several months
ago with the admission he was help
less—and that he had turned down op
portunities to make a million dollars
“‘easy money.”
Dalrymple Now Out.
. Now Dalrymple, who hung on to
his job in spite of open opposition,
has quit.
Are they going to get the “higher
ups?” Everybody wonders. Meanwhile
you can buy all the booze you want
in Chicago—and in most every other
city.
ECHOES OF PURITAN
PERIOD ARE HEARD
The Cries of Witch Resound Within
New York Court Room.
NEW YORK, N. Y.—Echoes of
Puritan days resounded within the
walls of Washington Heights court
today when screams of “Witch!
Witch! She’s a witch,” were hurled
at Mrs. Bessie Avorin.
She appeared as a complainant
against Mrs. Sophie Stern, whom she
charged with having publicly denounc
ed her with untrue accusations but sud
denly she became defendant when Mrs
Stern came to court with her 2-year
old daughter who had been cursed,
she said, by Mrs. Avorin and had lost
the power of her legs.
“Up to a couple of months ago,”
said Mrs. Stern, while her sympathiz
ers booed Mrs. Avorin, “my baby was
stpong and healthy. Then this woman
went and cursed it. Your honor, that
woman is a witch. Two hundred years
ago she would have been burned at
the stake.”
“The witch! The witch!” yelled the
women spectators.
Bang! went the magistrate’s gavel.
The he dismissed the summons
against Mrs. Stern for lack of evi
dence.
LIKES TO SEE MAN STAND
UP FOR HIS COUNTRY
A politician was once addressing a
meeting. He said, in the course of his
speech, that he would like to see home
rule, not only for Ireland but for Scot
land and Wales.
“And for hell, too,” somebody in
terrupted.
“Certainly,” said the speaker. “I like
to hear a man stand up for his coun-.
try.” .
See Wesley Barry in
*DONT,
EVER :
MARRY"
At the PALACE
Friday.
THE DAWSON NEWS
devices from within the boat.
All ships abandoned l:{ their own
ers for six months, provided they have
not tried to recover them within that
time, belong to any one who can sal
vage them. iir. Lai‘;e says that he will
operate off the coast of Europe and
around the British isles, where there
are war losses amounting to many
millions of dollars.
Mr. Lake holds that the Lusitania
can be reached by his equipment. The
Lusitania is sunk in water 240 feet
deep, but the hull and decks tower
nearly 100 feet from her keel, so that
much of the ship may be less than 200
feet from the surface. Most wrecks
are within 200 feet of the surface and
on this side of the Atlantic work con
templated will be limited to these, ex
cept in the case of the Marada, off
Cape Charles, which went down with
34 tons of silver bullion.
A REDUCTION OF $5,000,000,000
FROM PREVIOUS YEAR IS
CHIEFLY IN CROPS.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—American
farm crops and the value of farm ani
mal products and animals sold and
slaughtered during 1920 netted $19,-
856,000,000, a drop of $5,105,000,000
below the total of 1919, according to
a survey by the bureau of crop esti
mates, made public today.
The drop is almost entirely confined
to crops, with the chief declines in
cluding the following: Corn,” $1,662,-
1000,000; cotton lint and seed, $1.300,-‘
000,000; wheat, $854,000,000; hay, tame
and wild, $325,000,000; tobacco, $248,-
000,000; oats, $161,000,000. Wk
On the other hand ten crops gained
)in value, chief of which are oranges,
with a gain of $32,000,000, and sugar
lbeets $24,000,000. Other items of gain
are cabbage, $11,000,000; cow peas,
$10,000,000; sorghum cane sold and
syrup made, $7,000,000. Small gains
were made by soy beans, sugar beet
seed, maple sugar and syrup and
onions.
After offsetting gains against losses
the net crop value reduction is $4,868,-
000,000 while only $237,000,000 is
found in the total of farm animal
products and farm animals sold and
slaughtered. The wool decline is as
yet unrealized, but it is reckoned at
$37,000,000. Of the animals sold and
slaughtered the decline -for cattle and
calves is $223,000,000, and for swine
$427,000,000. But on the other side of
the account dairy products gained
$311,000,000; .and poultry raised and
eggs produced $160,000,000. .
It is the rule that in the upward and
downward moyements of prices farm
animals and animal products lag be
hind crops. So extreme was the lag
in the price of animals and animal
products in 1920, on account of the
extraordinary fall in the prices of
crops within a short period, that the
total crop value of 1920 is reconked to
be only 56 per cent of the total. value
of all farm products. In the estimates
for a long series of years this is the
first crop value estimate that has fall
en below 60 per cent of the total of
all products.
Sharp Price Decline in
Many Lines in 1920, But
- Other Costs Increased
Food, Clothing and Furniture Dropp
ed, But Housing, Fuel and Light
Costs Have Steadily Increased.
Reports made public by the depart
ment of labor show that in_ the last
six months of 1920 food, clothing and
furniture and furnizhings showed a
sharp decline in price throughout the
"United States. Housing, fuel and light
and miscellaneous articles entering in
to the cost of living, however, showed
a decided increase.
~ In New York city the price of food
decreased* 32 per cent, male clothing
32 per cent, female clothing 47 per
cent, and furniture and furnishings 8
per cent. On the other hand the cost
of housing increased 33 per cent, fuel
and light 4 per cent, and miscellane
ous articles 17 per cent. The general
average reduction for articles embrac
ed in the cost of living, taken as a
whole, showed a decrease of about 18
per cent for New York city and 16
per cent for the country. |
The reports disclose that neither the
increases nor decreases in the cost of
living are the same in different parts
of the country. In New York city the
cost of living showed an increase of
119.2 per cent between December,
1915, and December, 1920, while the
increase in Detroit was 136 per cent
and in San Francisco only 96 per cent.
Decreases in the price of food in the
various cities in the last six months of
1920 were in Baltimore 35 per cent;
Chicago, 50; Detroit, 57; New York
city, 32; Philadelphia, 33; San ‘Fran
cisco 29, and Seattle 48 per cent. |
WORTH HUNDRED THOUSAND
DOLLARS; LIVED IN SHACK
Refused Bond, Saying Jail Bed Was
. Good Enough For Him.
JAMAICA, N. Y.—William Mohr
man, of Ozone Park, owner of prop
erty valued at $lOO,OOO, was taken from
his burlap-lined shack today by a con
stable and brought into court here to
answer contempt charges. Fire offi
cials. had ‘charged Mohrman with us
ing his domicile, a converted garage,
without license, but he ignored them.
In court Mohrman said he paid $5
four years ago for the suit he wore
and that his collar had seen six years’
service. He left his shack once a week
to collect rents. Previously,” he said,
he occupied a less ‘pretentious hut.
Held in $5OO bail pending trial,
Mohrman said the bed in the Jamaica
jail was good enough for him and re
‘fused to put up the bond.
A Good Medicine For the Grip.
George W. Waitt, South Gardiner,
Me., relates his experience with the
grip: “I had the worst cough, could
and grip and had taken a lot of trash
of no account. Chamberlain’s Cough
Remedy is the only thing that has
done me any good, swhatever. I have
used one bottle of it and the cold and
grip have left me.”
CONGRESSMEN KEEP CLERK
HIRE IN OWN FAMILIES
Report Shows 114 Members Em
ploy Wives, Sons and Daughters.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—The: an
nual report of the clerk of the house
of representatives discloses that there
are 114 congressmen who carry 133
wives, daughters, sons, brothers or
other relatives on the capitol pay roil
as clerks. 2
In addition to his salary of $7,500
each member receives a clerk hire al
lowance of $3,200. In many instances
the relative on the pay roll actually
performs the work, but in many others
a clerk is hired for $1,200, more or
less, and the remainder of the allow
ance is paid to the relative, who does
no work. Frequently the $240 bonus
paid to employes receiving $2,500 or
less goes to a relative on the pay roll
as a congressman’s clerk.
HORSE MISUNDERSTOOD.
WHITE PLAINS, N. Y.—lf the
horse John Belchers drove for a ba
kery could understand English anoth
er robbery report would be on file,
Two armed men shouted “Hands up!”
to Belchers. The horse misunderstood
the words for ‘“‘get up” and broke all
speed records carrying Belchers to
safety.
WOMEN GIVE OUT 1
Housework is hard enough when
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bladder troubles, should be glad to
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Mrs. Mary E. Brown, N. Elm st,,
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me and my back ached from morning
until night. The constant bearing
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back aggravated me. I had dizzy
spells and little colored specks float
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I felt miserable and had no energy
to go about my housework. Seeing
Doan’s Kidney Pills advertised and
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Dawson I bought a box and started
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Price 60c, at all dealers. Don’t
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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY g 5,